Japanese visual artist & musician Yoshino Shigihara aka Yama Warashi has announced that her new mini-album At My Mother’s Piano will be released on 14 February 2025 via PRAH Recordings.
The 7-track collection promises exquisite, improvisational solo piano works interlaced with vivid field recordings, inspired by a trip back to her family home in Ashiya City, Japan earlier this year. A beguiling reflection of everyday realities, the natural world, spirituality and Japanese folklore, a special tapestry of memory, sound and extraordinary music.
Watch the music video for the EP's first single ‘Hankyu Denshya’ below.
Founded in Bristol circa 2015 and centred on a close-knit coterie of gifted collaborators led by Shigihara, the output of Yama Warashi has since flourished across one EP and three albums, from the graceful spiritual jazz of 2016’s MOON ZERO to the evocative, psychedelic dreamworlds of her debut album Moon Egg' - released in the same year - to the existential, Bon Odori-inspired music of 2018’s Boiled Moon.
Enriched by the kaleidoscopic influence of Japanese folk dance, free jazz, African music and psychedelia, Shigihara will continue to illustrate the ever-evolving qualities of Yama Warashi on At My Mother’s Piano.
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